Netflix recently released its next bit of original content, a 10 episode adaptation of Richard K. Morgan’s superb science fiction novel Altered Carbon. The story, which takes place 500 years hence, is of a world where alien technology has been used to enable...

A year since the election of the Trump administration, amid florid allegations, we get a few morsels of grounded accusations from courts of law, with all appropriate evidence. Mostly: Paul Manafort, the once-head of the Trump Presidential campaign, failed to pay...

If you’re reading this blog, odds are quite good that you’re aware of the “gay wedding cake” case currently before the Supreme Court. But, just for completeness, here’s the gist: A gay couple sought to purchase a custom-decorated wedding...

Donald Trump, yesterday, fulfilled a campaign promise by formally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and announcing the beginning of the process to move America’s embassy there. The hysterics began when it was first rumored he would do so, and...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay is a follow-up to October’s Oh, Catalonia! Let’s look at questions of state legitimacy as a series of Matryoshka dolls, working down to the level of Catalan desires for independence. The outside doll: the function of the...